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Occasional "salty" will be eaten by chickens.
Given a choice I think that they will resist "salty" beore it hurts them.
A little salt is included in formulated feed.
Forcing them to eat to much salt over a period of time is harmful. This might happen if the complete feed they are getting has to much salt, do to over inclusion, and that is the only thing they have to eat.
Turkeys - a whole differnt story. A small amount of salt over optimum is very hard on turkeys. At least the high performance industrial types. Sick as can be and die like flies. It is so devastating that each delivery of feed has a sample retained for finger pointing purposes later on. Salt is very often the culprit because automated machinery adding salt to the ration is unreliable. The corrosiveness of salt mucks up the machinery.
Given a choice I think that they will resist "salty" beore it hurts them.
A little salt is included in formulated feed.
Forcing them to eat to much salt over a period of time is harmful. This might happen if the complete feed they are getting has to much salt, do to over inclusion, and that is the only thing they have to eat.
Turkeys - a whole differnt story. A small amount of salt over optimum is very hard on turkeys. At least the high performance industrial types. Sick as can be and die like flies. It is so devastating that each delivery of feed has a sample retained for finger pointing purposes later on. Salt is very often the culprit because automated machinery adding salt to the ration is unreliable. The corrosiveness of salt mucks up the machinery.
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